16:16 Ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται μέχρι Ἰωάννου· ἀπὸ τότε ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ εὐαγγελίζεται καὶ πᾶς εἰς αὐτὴν βιάζεται. Ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται. Nominative subject of a verbless equative clause. Although a few scribes (D Θ) supplied the verb ἐπροφήτευσαν, following the parallel account in Matt 11:13, Luke simply writes “the Law and the Prophets (were) until John.” μέχρι Ἰωάννου. With the genitive, μέχρι functions as a preposition marking “continuance in time up to a